History Books

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
(9.4K)
The Death and Life o...
by Jane Jacobs
The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
(9.2K)
The World's Religion...
by Huston Smith
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
(9.1K)
Shake Hands with the...
by Roméo Dallaire
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
(9.1K)
The First Three Minu...
by Steven Weinberg
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
(9.1K)
Agent Zigzag: A True...
by Ben Macintyre
From Beirut to Jerusalem
(9K)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
(8.8K)
Maximum City: Bombay...
by Suketu Mehta
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
(8.8K)
Madness and Civiliza...
by Michel Foucault
Awakenings
(8.8K)
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
(8.8K)
Imagined Communities...
by Benedict Anderson
The Prose Edda
(8.7K)
The Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturluson
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
(8.7K)
Paris 1919: Six Mont...
by Margaret MacMillan
City of God
(8.7K)
City of God
by Augustine of Hippo
The Best and the Brightest
(8.7K)
The Best and the Bri...
by David Halberstam
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
(8.7K)
Stasiland: Stories f...
by Anna Funder
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
(8.6K)
The Last Lion: Winst...
by William Manchester
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
(8.6K)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
(8.5K)
The Protestant Ethic...
by Max Weber
Rights of Man
(8.3K)
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
(8.2K)
Wonderful Life: The...
by Stephen Jay Gould
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
(8.1K)
Debt: The First 5,00...
by David Graeber
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
(8.1K)
The Last Stand: Cust...
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
(8K)
Regarding the Pain of Others
(7.9K)
Regarding the Pain o...
by Susan Sontag
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
(7.9K)
The Black Hole War:...
by Leonard Susskind
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
(7.8K)
Backlash: The Undecl...
by Susan Faludi
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
(7.8K)
Zlata's Diary: A Chi...
by Zlata Filipović
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
(7.7K)
Devil in the Grove:...
by Gilbert King
Escape from Freedom
(7.7K)
Escape from Freedom
by Erich Fromm
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
(7.6K)
The Songlines
(7.6K)
The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
(7.4K)
Chasing the Scream:...
by Johann Hari
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
(7.4K)
The Missionary Posit...
by Christopher Hitchens
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
(7.4K)
Postwar: A History o...
by Tony Judt
The 33 Strategies of War
(7.4K)
The 33 Strategies of...
by Robert Greene
Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
(7.4K)
Dongri To Dubai : Si...
by S. Hussain Zaidi
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
(7.3K)
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
(7.2K)
Bloodlands: Europe B...
by Timothy Snyder
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
(7.2K)
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain
(7.2K)
The Tale of the Duel...
by Sam Kean
The Book of Tea
(7.2K)
The Book of Tea
by Kakuzō Okakura
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
(7.1K)
The Violinist's Thum...
by Sam Kean
Son of Hamas
(7.1K)
Son of Hamas
by Mosab Hassan Yousef
The Forgotten Soldier
(7K)
The World of Yesterday
(7K)
The World of Yesterd...
by Stefan Zweig
Roughing It
(7K)
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
The Golden Bough
(6.9K)
The Golden Bough
by James George Frazer
The Conquest of Gaul
(6.9K)
The Conquest of Gaul
by Gaius Julius Caesar
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
(6.9K)
Will in the World: H...
by Stephen Greenblatt
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
(6.9K)
The Good Women of Ch...
by Xinran
The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
(6.9K)
The Last Lion 2: Win...
by William Manchester
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
(6.9K)
The Secret Holocaust...
by Nonna Bannister
Holy Bible: The New King James Version
(6.9K)
Holy Bible, NKJV
(6.9K)
Holy Bible, New King James Version
(6.9K)
The Case for God
(6.9K)
The Case for God
by Karen Armstrong
The Mismeasure of Man
(6.9K)
The Mismeasure of Ma...
by Stephen Jay Gould
The Age of Reason
(6.8K)
The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
(6.8K)
South: The Story of...
by Ernest Shackleton
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
(6.7K)
The Prize: The Epic...
by Daniel Yergin